The Salton Sea is a salty land-locked sea located in a unique area in the southern California desert. This area is a significant source of geothermal activity and brine from which, the now highly sought-after lithium can be extracted. Salton Sea the board game, is about the unique characteristics of this area.
The object of the game is to score the most points. Those points come from a variety of actions during the game from drilling & excavating, executing contracts, fulfilling short term objectives, and from obtaining research cards. Game end points are also awarded for stock shares obtained in any of the three purchasing corporations, for products not yet sold, and for long term completed objectives. – – 1 to 4 players – – 120 minutes game time
Each player starts the game with four workers and seven action cards. Those cards have two functions: either trigger actions or use as money. The seven starting cards are each worth one dollar. There are also $3 and $5 cards that can be acquired. These will also have stronger action abilities. Your workers will be used to place on action cards or on the eleven different action spots on your player board. Each player can gain up to three additional workers.
The game is played over several rounds and ends when one of the two game ending conditions is met. In turn order, players use their workers to carry out an action on one of their available spaces. There are three categories of actions: Industrial, Commercial, and Management. The Industrial actions relate to brine extraction and the processing of it into lithium or thermal energy as well as machinery repairs. Commercial actions relate to working with three purchasing corporations in order to sell brine, lithium, and thermal energy and in acquiring and fulfilling benefit-yielding contracts. Management actions relate to making your company prosperous; from research, business projects, financing, and acquiring stock shares in the purchasing corporations. There is variable pricing when selling to a purchasing corporation. The price will be based on the type of product sold and that corporation’s current pricing tile. As product is sold, a purchasing corporation’s financial asset value will increase and at various points along its asset value track the pricing tiles will get replaced with new ones. In a nutshell, players will need to claim areas to drill, process and sell brine and its by-products, expand their warehouse, repair drilling equipment, acquire stronger cards, acquire research abilities, claim and fulfill contracts, and purchase stock shares.
Salton Sea is a strong economic game. There is a lot to do. The key to success will be acquiring the best abilities from research and action cards and then timing everything, from when to produce and when to sell to which corporations. The game will end when either two corporations have sold enough products to max out their financial asset value track or when the last area to drill has been claimed.
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